Apple Intelligence adds support for third party app notifications in latest beta

Though Apple Intelligence isn’t out to the general public yet, the betas for iOS 18 are giving us a look at what we should expect come October. AI features in iOS 18.1 beta include summarizing web pages, changing the tone of an email, searching your gallery for a particular image and more. Another feature that’s just shown up allows Apple’s AI to summarize notifications from third party apps.Seeing how notifications are almost always textual, it comes as no surprise that this is one of the earliest features to show up. Modern AI works best with text because it itself is an LLM (Large Language Model). Additional, more complex features are expected to keep rolling out after the public release, up until some time in 2025.

The beta shows us that Apple Intelligence can read the notifications from third party apps and present a succinct summary that focuses on the most important information. Though still not as impressive as I’d hoped Apple Intelligence would be, it’s undoubtedly a pretty useful little trick.